And here we were developing the smart virtual assistant for our corporate website with natural language processing and computational semantics abilities, when it came to my mind what I read some days ago in the book Turing’s Cathedral by George Dyson about artificial intelligence and search engines…

John von Neumann and Alan Turing were the pioneers of the current digital universe but each of them in their own way. In different locations: United States, the former; United Kingdom, the latter. In different terms: von Neumann only talked about computation, whilst Turing only mentioned artificial intelligence or, to be more precise, mechanical intelligence. With different final goals: von Neumann searched how to achieve that machines could breed, whilst Turing wondered what would be required so that machines began thinking.